When the Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) set up an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre (IEDC) at the MES College of Engineering at Kuttipuram in 2015, Vimal Govind and friends, then in their third year, had no plan to become entrepreneurs.
Seven years down the line, their startup, Gen Robotics Innovations, is looking at a likely turnover of ₹30 crore in the just-concluded financial year with multiple offices across Kerala and a subsidiary in the United Kingdom collectively employing 200 persons.
Apart from selling their much-lauded manhole drain cleaning robotic unit to 15 States and abroad, they have now come up with a slew of robotic products catering to the oil and gas industry, medical sector, and sanitisation of skyscrapers.
